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VOL. XXII, NO. 41 DARLINGTON, S. 0., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1895. WHOLE NUMBER 1,079. Lot*'. fttehM. Of» I recall, my frlrad of Mend*, The days we fllled with Joy, When you were jut a little (Irl And 1 a happy boy, When yon would any, “Mow let u play That I'm a lady fair And you a kinn who bring* a ring And rosea for my hair.” Fashions In Fiji. Fijian women buve a most affection- t'e disposition, altiiongb. like all semi- liTilized people, they iu - e extremely sen- litive and ready to take offense at the veriest trifle. Their skins are usually of a bright dark brown, smooth and glossy I Catherine*, ft neraltk The soldiers to wliom Catherine was indebted for the glory of the Russian , arms included Rumiantsof, the conquer or of Kngonl; the savage Kumieusi, who would bite pieces of flesh out of his men at the maneuvers and who stripped Bince that glad time full many a year Ha* all too quickly flown. And many a smile ha* oome the while yor every grief we've known; The palaee grand which then we planned, In dream* of long ago, la oure today, for atill we play The thing* we wish are ao. And that I* why, my friend of frlenda. Our live* are filled with joy. For you are atill my pretty girl And I yonr happy boy. And ao to me yoo’U always be A lady sweat aad fair, And 1 a king who bring, a ring And roaes for your hair. —Nlxoa Waterman In L. A. W. Bulletin. ;ns polished marble, and many, while I bis prisoners in ilO degiees of cold and yonug, possess handsome features and dasiied cold ■•'im' over them until they TOO LATE NOW. B1 Will Always Be Bloomer, and Bat “Smith..** p von wear "Amiths?” If yon are a woman and ride a wheel, the chances are yon do, but don’t know it, and call your smiths by the popular name of bloomers. The trousered costume which bears the name of the late Mrs. Amelia Bloomer waa not invented or evoluted by Mra. Bloomer, and she herself has said so in a number of instances and has placed all the credit whore she be lieved it to be due, with her friend, Mra. Elizabeth Smith Miller, who when she was plan Miss Smith first brought oat and wore in pnblic the strange gar ments, which was the first attempt in America to make the trousers and short skirt popular. It may be too late now to change the name, bat it will always be a matter of regret to the great and strong tribe of Smiths that the family was not perpet uated in the costume that now runs riot over the country. Mrs. Bloomer, however, had a very good idea of why the costume was called after her, and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller waa very willing that the credit should go to her. Mrs. Miller is still alive and lives with her daughter and family at Lochland, Geneva, N. Y., within a stone’s throw almost of the spot where so much of the bloomer his tory waa fashioned..—New York Jour nal They XJka Being Tanned. Most people who go to the country in the summer are not averse to getting a little tanned, and many youths sit out in the sun for the express purpose of ac quiring a good color. Few, however, would go to such an extreme as some college students who camped ont on Shelter island. Persons pessing in boats conld see them on the beach stripped to the waist, so that not only their faces, necks and arms should be sunburned, bnt their entire backs as well. The yonug men wanted to show in the gym nasium this winter what a thoroughly outdoor life they bad been leading.— New York Tribune. a Mm Would Marry a Murderer. In Havre Uvea a woman who is will ing to marry the millionaire murderer, Arthur Duestrow. She heard of him through the newspapers, and from the tone of a letter received by Governor Johnson it appears that she is wilUng to love, honor, respect and obey the slayer of bis wife and child and to take the chance* of meeting the same death which Duestrow dealt ont to Albertina Duestrow Feb. 18, 1894. The letter 1* in French and was re ceived by Governor Johnson during the trial at Union.—St. Lonis RepnbUc. IN A MILLfON YEARS. A Coavonation oo Immortality Betweea Mrs. Beachrr and Mark Twain. A current paragraph reports Mra. Th-ncts K. Beecher as having conclud ed a conversation on immortality, in which Mark Twain has “taken the ag nostic aide,” by asking him whether he would confess his error if he should meet her in heaven a million years hence. Mark promised that he would and sealed the promise by writing ap propriate stanzas on three stones found on the banka of the Chemung river, the three stones being fragments of what onoe waa a single rock. The “contract is dated Elmira, N. Y., July 8, 1895,' and here are the terms of it: If you prove right and I prove wrong, A million year* from Sow, In Ungusge pl»tn and frank and strong. My error I'll avow (To yonr d*or, mocking face). If 1 pwrv# right, by God hi* graco, Full sorry I »h*ll be, For la that solitude no true* There'll bo of yon and me (Bor of our vanished race). A million years. O patient rtonel You’ve waited for this mewnge. Deliver It a million yeotn— —CriUo. most symmetrical forms, but unfortu- : uately their natural grace speedily dis- ; appears after, marriage. While unmarried their hair, pictur esquely adorned with hibiscus and other flowers, is permitted to fall in thin plaits down the back of the neck. This is regarded as a sign of maidenhood. After marriage the plaits are cut off and not allowed to be worn again. In Suva and Levuka the women gen erally wear a blouse shaped pinafore of thin white cotton, but in their homes or in the interior districts they are content with the sulu, a kind of loin cloth, made from the bark of the native mul berry tree and wrapped two or three times around the body. When taking part in the meko-meke, or native dance, the girls wear a short, thick petticoat of dried grass, adorned with black and yellow tappa streamers, the bodies remaining bare from the waist upward. Shoes and stockings are discarded by Fijians of all classes except on special occasions.—St. Paul's. Two Ddctonu Almost every one has made his jest about the proneuess of doctors to dis agree, the one prescribing exactly an op posite course from that ordered by an other, but not every one has had an op portunity to conduct such an experiment as was made by the late Baron Lots, formerly prime minister of Bavaria. The baron was once severely wounded in battle in both legs. The wound in one leg was much like that in the other. It struck him that there was a chance to study the ways of the surgical pro fession and beguile tbe long hours of his convalescence. He accordingly called in one doctor and gave him charge of his right leg, bnt told him nothing about the wound in tire other, and then called in another doctor for his left leg, keep ing him similarly in ignorance about the wounded right leg. The doctors adopted a very different method of treatment, bnt both wounds healed at about the same time. When the baron's legs were quite well, he de rived a great deal of amusement from getting tbe doctors together and mysti fying them with questions abont the way each had treated “his leg."—At lanta Constitution. were literally frozen; the Prince of Nas san-Siegen, who was beaten by Gustavus of Sweden at Svenskund: Joseph Ribas, upon whom was written the unusual epitaph that “by his own wits he be came a good general, an excellent dip lomat and even an honest man,''and, most famous of all, Suvorof, or Suwar- row. This celebrated general, who figures inaccurately in Byron'a “Don Juan,” was never defeated in the field. He was short of stature, being only 5 feet 4 inches in height. Snvorof was idolized by his soldiers He hud implicit faith in his star, his conceit was unbounded, and he behaved sometimes like a raving lunatic. He would come ont of his tent stark naked and turn somersaults on the grass. His other eccentricities were equally amazing. At times apparently | humane and averse to ihe shedding of ^ blood, on other occasions lie sanctioned 1 the most awful massacres. It was his deliberate conviction that there were only three great generals in the history of modern warfare—Turenne, Laud on and Snvorof.—Saturday Review. The Propertlen of Cocaine. Travelers in Pern andcomi'.nes where Cocoa grows chew the leaves of this plant for the purpose of allaying tbe sense of hunger and the feeling of ex haustion that accompanies it At first the leaves were thought to possess food elements, bnt now it is known that the cocaine they contain merely allays the im.ability of the nerves that produce the sense of hunger Cocaine is an alkaloid made from the cocoa leaf, which has the efieot of completely destroying the sensibility of nerves. Tbe discovery of this active principle of the fully and satisfactorily the effect pro- duced by chewing the leaves. An infu sion of tbe leaf might be used with good resnlts in allaying the gnawing appetite thot follows some forms of fe- ver.or in c;v.es where the sense of hunger is duo to a diseased condition of the Biuuia.h. Co io should never be used except on the prescription of a trustworthy physician, because it is dangerous. The cocaine habit is more readily formed than either the morphine or the liqnor habit and is far more rapid in its work of destruction.—Pittsburg Commercial An Animal That Sim. With the single excep—m of his dog, the aportman ia probably tbe only ani mal now living on the earth that hiea. All others are extinct Even tbe sportsman never hies except in print or in mannacript intended for print, and even then, oar observation wonld appear to indicate, he hies more frequently in the manuscript than in the actual print. Other creatnres, quadruped or biped, simply go—walk, run, travel, make a break, skip, scoot, slope, set ont, light out, peg ont, mosey, as the New York ^ leaf ""explained P ol ' c « “- T ' K*‘. >mov ® or, in thee lassie speech of the Bowery, chase derselfs. But the shooter hies him on the field, and the angler hies himself l . , . . . to the stream. There the one sees hl s . w t he hexagimal form of t heir prisons dog freeze into a statue, the other I of wl,lch “ clo8ed » boTe b y » klud A Remarkable Toad. In Snrinam there is a remarkable toadlike creature, tbe female of which carries the young in a series of cells in j tbe thick skin of the back, which as sumes a strange honeycomblike appear ance. When this lady toad is carrying her nursery about with her. she is a very repulsive looking object Single handed she would be quite unable to cope with the important question of placing eggs where they will be most favorably disposed for hatching, and for this she has to rely on the good services of her mate. Soon after tbe eggs are laid they are taken np by the male and pressed, one by one, into the cells in the thickened skin of his partner's back. dog freeze Into a statue, the otner ” " “V" catches speckled beauties, and neither 01 *™Pd<x*' ever eats bis dinner or supper, bnt in variably does full justice to it—Forest and Stream. from Take Care of Your Teeth. All decay of the teeth begins without. Conseqi mtly if tbe teeth’s surfaces be kept scrupulously clean they cannot decay. When ought cleaning begin? As soon as there are teeth. Let the child early acquire the habit of nsing a small toothbrush dipped into chalk flavored with some aromatic drug and let it nmi; rstaud that the places most needing tbe brush are those be tween the teeth. ! That is the ida'0 whore decay almost invariably appoitrs. Mucous secretions and secretions of food are always found between the teeth after a meal. They may be removed , with a toothpick. I It is almost an art to use a toothpick. One must beware of injuring the fleshy parts and leaving splinters, which in some cases may cause tbe loss of a tooth. Metal toothpick* shonld be al together avoided. Those of dnll and hard wood are best. —London Lancet. Vulture* and a D.ad Tla.r. The vulture is seen at its best when a dead tiger, brought into camp to be skinned, is exposed In the open. Over head is a cloudless sky, and uot a bird to be seen in that great void by the hu . imperfect. Immersion aad Isolation Ad Tired. Air, water, milk, batter, oyster, mus sels, water cress, foreign fruit and kisses are all especially capable of conveying infection. Cabs, cats, dogs, cushions in railway cnrrsgea, shaving at hairdress ers’, clothes from the tailor’s, washing from the laundry, change, bank notes, books from libraries, forks and glasses at restaurants and mnd upon boots and dresses are other mediums for the dis- tribntion of disease. This list is very Civilized man, then, may man eye. Tbe tiger’s body is thrown from the pad to the gronnd, and before the akin libs been removed there above one and always nearing the earth are the vultnres circling, poising like things of air, now a dozen of them, in a few minutes a score or two and then a hun dred strong. Then, when the flayed car cass of the tiger is left by those who skinned it, the vultnres descend. Down they come like festhered thunder out of the sky, and from east and west and north and sonth, the very embodiment of power while they whirled aloft and in tboirquick descent to earth, and now, as they waddle uromid that carrion beast, misshapen gbonls, whose only apparent strength is that of the raven ing jaws which tear and gorge the tiger's flesh, nntil within the hour uanght of that splendid brute remains hut a clean picked skeleton.—Sir Ed ward Bradden’s "Thirty Years of Shikar. ’’ only expeot to live an average term of life by continuous immersion in boiling water, accompanied by absolute Isola tion. Beyond that, whatever he eats, drinks, wears or touches should be boil ed three times before becomes iuto con tact with it. It is remarkable that onr After a period of some 82 days the eggs reach their full development and produce, not tadpoles, bnt actually per fect little toads. The reuaan of this is that the tadpoles, which require to breathe tbe air dissolved in the water by means of their external gills, could not exist in the cells, and couheqnrntly thia stage of development ia passed through very rapidly within the egg. In due time the yonng toads to the num ber of 80 or 100 burst open the lids of their cells, poke ont their noses and make their entrance into the world. The mother toad rubs off the remains of the cells against any convenient stone nr plaut stem and comes ont in a brand new spring outfit.—Knowledge. Jnsl Md 454 PI EC S Imported, Beautifully Decorated, DINNER SETS. Mexican Street Car Cnatome. The street cars are an institution that will cost yon many a real, pang before you muster all of their peculiarities. Yon can hire one for yonr personal nse l .Jill ixu'&cit m SETS; Uttst ii EM Patas. OUR Walking. For walking with pleasure and advan tage I shonld give a few simple rules. The application of these rules for him self every man must make with due al lowance for his own peculiarities. Take plenty of time at meals. Do uot walk right after a meal. Rost well before the noon and evening meals. Drink all you desire of good water during the tramp, but sparingly at meals or just before eating. Good digestion is as important to good walking as it ia necessary for good work of any kind. As to foods, a man has to take on his tramp what is set before him. It will generally be nonrishing enough if he will be careful to eat it when not tired and to eat it slowly. At the end of each day take a sponge or towel bath or a dry rub down. At least wash yonr feet and change socks, and shoes, too, if possible. A change of all my clothing next to the skin at the end of each day is imperative with me.—Chicago News. An HoBMt H.rgreat. A military story comes from Ireland. A noncommissioned officer, entering a barrack gate in Dublin, was mistaken by the “fresh one” on sentry go, who immediately saluted him. The noncom missioned officer, unaware that his colo nel was just behind, returned the salute, a thing not permissible under the circumstances. Arrived at his quar ters, he was surprised to find an order for him to attend before the colonel. On presenting himself he was asked how he came to return thesalnte, know ing full well he was not entitled to it Not in the least embarrassed, he promptly answered, “Sir, I always re turn everything I am not entitled to. ’’ The colonel, taken aback by hi* ready wit, laughingly dismissed him. Tha Amertrenre Language. The prevalence of lower jaw rigidly among onr meu of all callings and de grees of culture is amazing. Tbe follow ing report of a conversation in a street car between two prominent, well edu cated business men does (hem no injus tice: • “Wyeh.” (BcWare you?) Wbaheh. ’’ (How are you?) “Inedeh. ” (Fine day.) •<8. nh call nt a. ” (Yes, I call itaa) “Wah thing genl?" (How are thing* in general:) “ Weh, vveh don alii, (much, thuh; mi kee Uriz tirn these tie.’ (Well, we're doing a little, not ranch, thongh; it’s Pontiac, Mich.. 1* going a little farther ia the enforcement of Sunday law* than any other place h.rf to keep thirds Mirring theee time*.) from. Xeafanrsnfl. ealoona^oanfly^ k ^ ^ Fiu# . D h.’’ (That’s and tobacco stands ° n fun j abont rl g ht . 1 find it so. )- days, and ice cream dealers may not oo- »o- liver their goods tp customers on that rornm. day. Now over a hundred citizens have ] Mm*. <u Pompadour, signed a petition asking that tbe livery | Mme de p om p a( j onr wa s not. accord- atablea he closed, and yet another pen- ^ t<) tbe te9tlmon j 0 f her pontempora- tion haa been circulated and extensively signed asking that milkmen and icemen be prohibited from plying their bnsi- neaa on Sunday. There 1* * notion among the Sabbatarians that the latter petition is a device of the enemy, bnt if •o the enemy ii working it very serious ly sad edcrgetically, and with a good show of (access.—New York Sun. Tbe first work printed on ahorthsnd writing was by Dr. Timothy Bright of Cambridge in 1898, who dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth under the title of " An Act of Short. Swift and Secret Writing ties, a beauty, nor anything more than a fairly good looking woman. She gain ed her influence by her pleaaing man ners and her wonderful tact and address. Her chief beauty wta her hair, which, to increase her apparent height, she wore in the fashion that haa since borne her name. Bril Knoncb. There ia evil enough in knows. But it ia not the every young man and report it all man, God mission of urd woman to detail Keep tbe atmosphere as pare a* possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity.—Dr. John Hall Care V,-r*a* PreTentlo*. One curiously irrational feature of the conduct of government and society is tbe lavish expenditure for cure com pared with the pittance spent for pre vention. We lavish thousands upon our asylums, which proper attention to medical education and sanitary precau tions wonld render tenant less. We elect rognes to office and maintain at great expense of time, labor and money a vol untary system of espionage to prevent their robbing na We build costly jails and prisons and support expensive courts of justice and allow uncared for waifs by thousands to throng onr streets and abode* of evil. It is a trnth which has become trite Uiat prevention would be vastly more economical and beneficial than these only half effective cures, yet we go on day after day in ntter disre gard of its teachings.—Chicago Ad vance. DlTorre la Burma. Divorce in Burma Is free. It can be claimed by either party for any good reason, such a* incompatibility of tern per, and carries no slur with it. No lawsuit is required. They go to the vil lage elders, in a town to the elders of the quarter, and a divorce paper is drawn np that defines all arrangements as to property and children. The law as to property ia this: Each retains his or her own property, and all property acquired jointly daring marriejl life, as by trading, is divided equally. Bnt the claimant of the divorce must leave the house and all tlie household goods to the other. If it be the woman, she may remove her loom; if it be the man, he may take nothing. Thus them ia a certain penalty on claiming a di vorce, bn* it i# no* * large one.—Black- wood's Magazine. Salt mttan. Abont a quarter of a century ago Be- ranger's “Grisette” was performed at one of the theatere. The part of Lisette waa allotted to Virginie Dejazet This popular actress, then advanced in years, had lost all her teeth, and to do justice to her new role she had ordered a fresh set As the teeth felt uncomfortable the took them ont when the play was over and put them in her pocket When in : the greenroom, she incautiously sat down ' and immediately jumped up with a scream. “Whati* tbe matter?” inquired our jolly old friend, Adolph Dcuuery. “Nothing,” said Mile. Dejazet “I have only bitten myself. ’’—Revue The- atrsie. Bl ( Plantation* In SlnT.rr Days. Agriculture on a greak *e*)e in the new west haa made people forget the great business undertakings of some planters in tbe daya of slavery. An English traveler describes * plantation in Louisiana where a single field of 6,000 acres in sugar cane and 1,600 in corn bordered the Mississippi The plan tation was sold not long before for near $1,800,000, and it yielded that year more than $800,000 worth of producU. Tire same planter had another plantation of 8,000 acres, worth about $750,000. One of hi* neighbors had saved $1,000,- i 000 in 25 years. The crop of sugar on I the first plantation was estimated to be ' worth nearly $800,000 in the year of tbe Englishman'a visit. Derivation of Fad. Tho derivation of this word ia bly traceable in the Welsh language, the law of mutation of initial conso nants peculiar to that tongne the root words ffedd and medd are convertible terms Their essential meaning is pos session; transitive or intransitive, pos session of something, or the act of being possessed or engrossed by some occupa tion or vice. Welsh medd, and Irish, SamLrit, and English mad, have simi lar meanings and are probably kindred words The word mnd is not common in. Teutonic idioms, so that the Anglo-Sax ons probably borrowed It from the Welsh. Fad is therefore equally deriva ble from ffedd. Proximately, of course, it comes from the midland dialects and nltir. :.‘ *'y from some root word com- mo:. to many members of the Aryan predecessor, thrived despite the eternal. “2 d K f BU . 3 : W ': ere J 1 *, ‘ ^ • bon ‘ thongh in their day unascertained, law. * H B0 ' w, h ,h « P riv ' k « e "topping of science.-London Truth. | 006 P 1 ** ,or , DOt 0VCT two bon ™ at j a time, and the fun yon wonld have would be like taking a car in Chicago j and going all over the North, Sonth and West sides, pulling the car off the track and getting the policeman to pnt it on again if you wanted to visit at any one place Tor some time. These cars are driven at a gallop, and the driver holds a continuous conversation with his little mnles that is always fervid and forcible ! and occasionally picturesque. The con ductors are very aooommodating, if there is a small coin in sight, and will ■ell you a ticket for the lottery or a ticket for the hatha, or bnrry off and bny you a cigar, and then ran the mules 1 to make np for lost time. There is a sign in the cars requesting the passen gers not to detain the car by their ever lasting goodbys, but it ia a dead letter. The dear women will hug and kiss and ask about the baby and all the relatives and exchange the latest fashions on the street car steps just the mme as they try to do in more civilized lands, and the men are just as bad in their way, for 1 they hug, ask questions, swear eternal friendship and relight the obstinate cig arette in a way to drive one mad, espe- I cially if you are in a hurry to catch a train.—New York Post’s City of Mexico Letter. Cold In tho Arabian DMert. The narrative is that of Nolde’s expe dition iuto tbeNefud desert of the Ara bian interior, latitude 28 degrees north, altitude 8,000 feet, hnd tells of the se vere cold that he experienced there in February. 1898: “The day* were warm and pleasant, bnt the uighta cooled to 6 or 10 degrees below zero C., the changes of temperature being extremely sudden. • • • The cold and blattering wind caused mnch discomfort in traveling. ” The greatest surprise that Nold* met was on Feb. 2, when a storm clothed the Nefud far and wide with a sheet of P 0 *®'" snow several Inches deep, making it re- 8? cemble a Russian steppe rather than an Arabian desert. The Bedouins, however, Said that snowfall there was very un usual. —.Science. To Siiwe the Teeth. Professor Miller, a noted authority of Berlin, gives tho following formula as an excellent preventive of decay of the teeth: Gr.ma. Thymlo acid *. 0.2S Jlen/cic acid 8 Tincture of eucalyptus U Alcohol It® Eaecnce of menthol 0.75 Pour a few drops of this liquid into half a glass of water and rinse tbe month with the mixture three or four times daily. It is essential to brush the teeth, removing all particles which may 10-PIECE Toilet Sets Are the ft neat thing ever brought to the City. FOR: Ming, ks, Mil; Silts, &c., call and examine our stock. New Goods Arriving Daily. family of speech It wonld be etrange have lodged in and between them, before if the two words, mad and fad. having j using the above wash, a similar meaning, shonld be traceable , to the same root.—Notes and (Queries. It is said that he or she who admits tbe poasesaicn of a secret has already half revealed it Certainly it i* a great deal gained toward the acquisition of a treasure to know exaetly where it is.— Simms - A Scotch Reconciliation. j There was the “Last Anderson of Deeside, ’ ’ whose father, the laird, did not speak to him for the space of two ; years becanse he took it into his head to become a minister. “Na, an speak to his ’ son the anld man wadna, for tbe very donrnesa o’ him. Aye, even thnpgh the minister wad saetohisfaither, ’Paither, vnll ye no’ speak to yer aiu son?’ No’ he answer, bnt pass him Doctor*' Bill*. The Chicago Tribune publishes an ac count of an interview with a member of a firm in that city whose business con s' -M chiefly In the collection of doctors' biiis. He was asked if the majority of p.'it’enti id their accounts and said that t!i‘ ) did not From this it wonld bo lu.o. tv*l that in Chicago over one- half of the patients faileti to pay their doctors’ tees, a statement that is extraor dinary and improbable. We believe that in most American cities from 70 to 80 per cent of the fees charged are paid and collected, and probably a larger per- , j. ae wor)1 wa(1 ^ oentage would be obtained if doctors ag though be hadna seen him, as mnckle ~ * ~ as to say,‘Nae son o’minel’ rendered better service or nmnaged the bnsiuess side of their proles-n® in a more rational manner.—Medical Rec ord. Th« Arnica Plant. The plant from which arnica ia pro duced appears to be iudigenons to the monutain districts of Europe and Asia. It is found growing wild in the Pyre nees; Apennines, Swiss and German Alps, Carpathian mountains, in the nioantains of Armenia, in the Urals and the Himalayan range. It ia said that the plant has also been fonnd in tbe mountain districts of the United States west of the Mississippi river, bnt whether a native or an importation can not be ascertained. The medicine is chiefly prepared from plants artificially grown in the medicinal gardens of France and Germany. Rpldor Venom Not Drmllj. "Bnt a week or twa after the minis ter had lost yonn twa nice bairns wi’ the scarlet fever his faitber an him fore- gatered at the fishiu—whaur he bad | gone, thinkiu to jook the Bair thochta that he carried abootwi’him, putar man. They were baith keen fishers an graun at it The minister was for liftin his hat to his faitber an gann by, bnt tbe anld man stood still in Ihe middle o’ tbe fltpad, wi’ a gye queer look in his face, ‘Wattie,’ he said, an for gae blink tbe minister thocht that his faither was gann to greet, a thing he had never see him do in all hia life. Bnt the anld man didna’ greet “Wattie,'saya be to hia ■on, ‘hae ye a hoik?’ “Aye, Saunders, that was a’ be said, an the minister juist gied him the hnik and some half dizzen fine flees forbye, an the twa o’ them never said disruption mail as lang as they Iceved.’’—“Bog Myrtle and Peat” A recent article by an entomological i J At Crawfordsvill*. Ind., in tbe sum mer of 1890 there was a shower of fish and angleworms. The fish were with- I ont eves and all aboul two inches long. authority contains the following: "The tarantula of the west and sonth, the red bellied spider of New Zealand, the be- pata of Italy and several other specie* of tbe spider family have the reputation of being deadly venomous. The fact is all apidere are more or less poisonous, but none of them is deadly. 1 dmbt if there ia an authentic case on reootd of a healthy bnn.an being dying from a spi der'* bite.” To Save On.’» Bacon. “To save one’s bacon”—that is, to make a narrow escape—ia supposed to refer to the Dun mow flitch. For many oentnries it was tbe custom at Dunmow, in England, to present a flitch of bacon tb a married conple of 20 years' stand ing who would make oath on the Scrip tures that they had never bad a quarrel. To come close to a quarrel without an actual rupture was, in tbe popular dia- ■ lect. "to save one’s banco. ’* H.M Tfc»t Make Bari Hoa*r. Lovers of the product of the busy bee will find it a wise precaution to have their honey tested a* to its purity before they eat it or nse it in a culinary i way.” Professor Remington gave a warning something like this at a recent meeting of pharmacists, and at the same time told of a German who was exten sively engaged in bee culture, and who had bis apiary close to a sugar refinery. A lot of rank molasses was accessible to the bees, and they gorged themselves on it The result was their honey was equally rank, and unfit for use. On an other occasion Ihe bees fed on blooming digitalis, and their honey proved to be poisonous. Natural honey therefore is liable to vary very mnch, and occasion ally, when it looks best and ia sweetest, it may be loaded with poison. Unsorupu- lons bee farmers are accustomed to forc ing their trees to increase their outputs by feeding them sweetened water. The honey of course is scarcely fit for use.— Philadelphia Record. Dor*'* Memory. Dore educated his memory by observ ing things as be walked w'th the inten tion at remembering all he oould of them. He dis«ected subjects by division and subdivision, on a system of his own ao as to lay them by in good order, to be found when he wanted them in their right places. Hamerton (quoted by Jer- rold) related that “by long practice” of this kind he conld carry away a wonder ful quantity of facta and had even test ed his memory in a contest with a pho tographic apparatus, a friend of his pro tographing a cathedral, Dore looking at it and drawing it afterward at his home, while hia friend developed hia photo graph. On comparing the two, drawing and photograph, It appeared, mnch to the astonishment of the photographer, that Dore had omitted no detail of im portance, a few minor inaccuracies be Ing alone disooverabla—Joseph Hatton A Mighty Dm*rt Wind. in MW The eamiel ii » hot, noxi “"* aTA TS o f SOUTH CAROLINA trical wind, which passes over the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa. It move* , County of Darlington. with the quickness of lightning and By ^ g sq , Probate Judge passes in narrow ^ “ f *T j WHEREAS, H. M Smith made minutes at a time. It deals ' nlrt f nt : guit to me to g rftn t unto him Letters death to every men or beast happening o{ Administration of the Estate of to face it, and it is said that it ao de- | an( ] effects of T. it. Gandy, deceased them that their limb* fall j These are therefore to cite and ad Clothing at Cost! oompones ■ asunder. The approach of it ia indicated by thick haze in the horizon, and trav elers, if they have time, throw them selves on their faces, with their feet to ward it, till it haa passed. The sirocco is another blighting wind, which pre vails in Italy and adjoining district*, about April The West Indian hurri canes are of a totally different descrip tion, being simply vortexes of greet force, and they have been know to blow heavy cannon ont of a battery and carry a man over a ten foot well—Brooklyn Earl*. We are now offering a large stock of nnim This is your opportunity to get a good suit cheap. We have also a full line of MEN’S, YOUTH’S, AND BOYS’ Clothing cheap am medm Sim. SHOES. The celebrated Bay State, Chas. Heiser’s, E. P. Reed & Co’s, and many others of the very best makes for Men, Women and Children. * __________ HATS AND CAPS. In this line we can show you the best goods and styles at prices rang ing from “Zb cents np. Complete stock of DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS.CENTI monish all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the aaldT- A. Gandy, deceased, that they be and appear be fore me, in the Court of Probate, l»e held at Darlington. 8. C., on 24th next, after publication thereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be grant- ed. Given under my Hand, this 9th day. of October, Anno Domini. 1898. W. B. HOOLE, Judge of Probate. Oct. 10-W. I r oe- ,, to BmuirAiem at “Rock Bottom” prices.